...and it is possible to excite the tension unnecessarily?
"The Hungarian ambassador in Washington, DC has asked The New York Times in an official letter to issue a correction in connection with an article which appeared in the US daily, claiming that a Syrian refugee woman was “beaten unconscious in a Hungarian prison,” daily Magyar Idők reported. According to the paper, Réka Szemerkényi’s letter proposes that the paper should issue a correction in order to prevent possible legal steps..."
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"Report: Hungarian ambassador urges NYT to print correction
Christian Keszthelyi : Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Réka Szemerkényi, Hungary’s ambassador in Washington, asked the New York Times in a letter to correct a piece it carried on January 2, claiming a Hungarian guard beat a Syrian refugee woman, as Hungary insists allegations in the article are false, Hungarian daily Magyar Idők (Magyar idők=Hungarian times) reported today. ..."
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Report: Hungarian ambassador urges NYT to print correction
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www.magyaridok.hu , The New York Times violated its own ethics manual when it published untrue and unverified allegations in connection with Hungary, citing anonymous sources – the internal rules of the American paper revealed. An employee of the newspaper wrote – referring to a Syrian woman – that a Hungarian prison guard severely assaulted her because she rejected him. The Hungarian Prison Service denied this information. They said there could be no immigrant women in the Hungarian prisons, so they could not get into contact with any prison staff.
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Katrin Bennhold, author of the article clings to her story: she thinks the case happened in “one of the detention centers”. According to her the sister of the victim reported it, who witnessed the crime. The journalist could not tell additional details, like where or when the woman was assaulted. Her excuse for the lack of further information is that “Muslim women are hard to open up”."
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"Katrin Bennhold
Correspondent
NEW YORK TIMES
Katrin Bennhold is a writer and columnist for the global edition of The New York Times in London. A native German who speaks four languages and spent most of her career in France, Katrin has covered terrorist attacks in Algiers, interviewed the French President, investigated rogue trading at a major bank and donned a Muslim headscarf on a transatlantic flight. She is a regular speaker at conferences and in the broadcast media.
In 2010, Katrin became founding writer for the ongoing Female Factor series on the status of women in the early 21st century, publishing regular columns and winning the Times Publisher’s award.
Before joining the Times, Katrin was an economics writer and television anchor for Bloomberg News. She holds a Master’s in economics from the LSE and is married with two daughters."
